A Kaitlin Brag

Kaitlin is taking a digital photography class in school. One of her assignments was a landscape photo. She just got a letter from her teacher yesterday telling her her photo was selected to be in the art show!! YAY for Kaitlin!!

Check out the photo

Spring Break

I had some window washers and painters come to my house for Spring Break. It is such a good thing that workers are hard up for money now a days. I got some pretty cheap labor - $20 a person in fact. The boy even threw in a free paint job!! Man... that's what I call a screamin' deal!! :)

Here's the window washer dude... look at that concentration - even his tongue is stickin' out!! LOL (he actually looks a tad bit buff too) ;-]

Now the other half of the window washers is this girl here. She looks like she got attacked by Freddy Krueger in the middle of the night tho - check out that Freddy Kreuger shirt - I'd hate to have her nightmares.
So - yeah - I got my blinds dusted and windows cleaned on the inside by Kreuger's sidekick there and that ripped dude who likes to stick his tongue out cleaned the windows on the outside and my screens too. Sweetness... Need to hire these two more often!! They did an AWESOME job...maybe next time they'll even get paid more too. So if any one out there needs their windows done... call me - I can set you up with Kreuger girl and ripped/tongue dude!! :)


Now onto the 3 days worth of a painting project!! I've had Glenn's comforter for a few years. I am ashamed to say - I have NEVER in his 16.5 yrs on this earth - ever painted a room for him. Now he seems to be putting his clothes away in his drawers and hanging them up...making his bed every day and opening his blinds... I think to myself... I should have done this YEARS ago!! Maybe all those arguments would have been avoided!!

Glenn(ie) and I painted the tan on, then Glenn and I painted the cream that same evening. We had to let it dry a whole day before we taped over the cream. I had to 'test' the red - to make sure it was gonna work.
So the next evening, we taped over the cream then started with the red and touched up the tan from the ceiling to the stripe and the tan below the stripes. We had to put 4 coats of red on the wall... so finished it up the 3rd day - and wah-la - the end result is quite awesome!!

My olympic athletes

Glenn got a bright idea after watching a commercial on TV for the biggest loser where the olympic athlete jumps into a standing position on an exercise ball.... Check out the videos below.

Here is the biggest loser one to get an idea of what the Glenn's were trying to do. :)

Now here's Glenn's attempts - enjoy a good laugh!!

And here's Glennie's tries

One attempt

And here he sticks it...for the most part!!

Christmas Day

MERRY CHRISTMAS

Our morning ran like this... remember - Glennie is 16 now.. 16. Glennie got up at 1:15...opened his stocking stuffers and organized the presents then went into the basement and played Xbox. Glenn woke up at 2 ish... checked on the kids and found Glennie in the basement... kicked him off and made him go back to bed.. at which point then Glennie snuck out AGAIN went into the family room and read a book till he fell asleep on the couch. Nerd Bucket! Kaitlin got up at 5:30 and woke him up... at which point they tried to get us up. We managed to talk them into 6 and started our fun then. Here are some photos of our fun.

All the presents organized and into piles
Before we could start opening presents, Glenn read Luke Chapter 2.

A milestone here in the Ellis household. Glenn's 1st razor!! Say it ain't so!

Kaitlin's cute white/fur hooded puffy vest

Glennie got his digital camo pants!

Kaitlin and her cute fur lined boots

The aftermath

The rest of our day will be cleaning up and then we'll have a nice roast with gravy, twice baked potatoes, honey glazed carrots and rolls... with oreo pudding pie for dessert! Mmmmmm

Christmas Eve Celebrations

We celebrated with Jeff & Sara on Christmas Eve this year. Here's some photos

Almost all of us!

Kaitlin opening her PJ's
Glenn opened his jammies

Ben opening a present from us

Sophie opening her present, Abby watching

Sam just got done opening his

Kaitlin open from Jeff & Sara

Glenn

Kaitlin opened from Auntie Dianne

Glenn's present from Auntie Dianne - love this one!!

the other side of the shorts

Jeff and Ben

Glenn's ornament

Kaitlin's ornament

Trying to get a photo of the kids in their jammies

Trying again

Gave up after this photo

Merry Christmas Eve!

I LUV Nerds!!

'dem dare are sum fine lukin peepul

taint dem sew purdy? now dontcha git on der bad syde
errr dem guna STARE u down

LOL - SOOooooo many of you NEVER see this side of my family. Kaitlin and Glenn are the quiet reserved ones! I guess when they get into 'TRUE' form their 'real' personalities come out!! LOL

Trust me - You HAVE to watch the video!!

One thing that we TOTALLY missed getting on camera was Kaitlin found a whistle that Glenn wore around his neck. He then proceeded to blow in the whistle - however, the whistle got stuck in his goatee and just sat there... now THATS what I call a TRUE nerd!! LOL

Taking Flight

Indoor Skydiving

So Saturday night we went on a double date with our great friends The Call's. You see, we have been planning this adventure for - well forever. Last Christmas I gave Glenn a gift certificate to the Indoor Skydiving place here in Colorado. Lisa had given Alan a gift certificate too, so we finally decided to go last night. Lisa and I had a blast watching them and others and Glenn and Alan said they had a great time and would do it again in a heartbeat!!

They each had 2 minutes of flying time. They went in for 1 minute and then sat and waited their turn again, to do their last minute.

Here they are in the chamber getting ready for their turns

Here's Glenn 'in flight'
Glenn's hair is kinda long right now.. and I just HAD TO take this photo of his hair coming out of the holes of his helmet. It was just funny watching it flapping away!!

Alan and Glenn after their flight

Here's a video of Glenn